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SSF: Illuminating hidden harvests
The conversation around a global and collaborative small-scale fisheries study highlights the under-recognition and under-reporting of women’s work. Illuminating Hidden Harvests: The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development’ (IHH) is a collaborative study led by FAO, Duke University and WorldFish. The study, due out in 2021, consists of 58 country...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture is Essential to COVID-19 Survival and Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a devastating threat to lives and livelihoods around the world. Many development organizations and research institutions are raising their voices and calling for governments, policymakers, donors, and implementers to pay attention to the gender-specific risks and impacts of the outbreak to ensure response efforts are equitable...
2020 - AgriLinks
تقرير
Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia - An overview.
This publication aims to provide an overview of actions and initiatives on Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia countries.
There is enough evidence that agroecology contributes to more sustainable food systems, in particular to delivering food production while respecting natural resources, ecosystem services and social processes. However, to assure agroecology can...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Características socioeconómicas de los productores
El cultivo de mora en Colombia es un generador de ingresos y de empleo para los pequeños y medianos productores, y una alternativa agroindustrial para algunas zonas del país. Su porcentaje en la producción nacional es del 5,8 % (Red de Información y Comunicación del Sector Agropecuario Colombiano [Agronet], s....
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
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Participatory varietal selection: short duration legume crops for rainfed rabi in India and Nepal
Poor farmers in marginal areas continue to grow old crop varieties that are often susceptible to pests and disease, and which are less suited to current constraints and opportunities experienced by farmers. These farmers have had little exposure to new varieties, whilst those that have been released are often not...
India - Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
وثيقة عمل
FishCounts: increasing the visibility of small-scale fisheries in Cambodia’s national planning
Artisanal and family fishing make a significant contribution to Cambodia’s economy and food security. Community fisheries are already empowered to manage local fisheries resources, but small-scale fisheries are often overlooked in policy making, partly due to a lack of reliable data. Developing a fisheries satellite account through the System of...
Cambodia
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
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Innovative cases of organic agriculture in Asia
This book is a product of the Xichong Organic Innovation Committee, a group composed of 9 organic innovation experts from all over Asia. It provides a valuable framework for organic farming stakeholders in Asia and around the world by sharing a selection of best organic practices and innovative cases in production,...
2020 - Universitas Bakrie Press
مقالة إخبارية
Biodiversity: Needed – a gender sensitive biodiversity framework
Future global biodiversity goals must recognise the vital contributions made by women and girls, particularly from indigenous and local communities. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is perhaps the most relevant and ethical convention for the conservation, the sustainable use, and the fair and equitable distribution of benefits of marine and...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Ensuring quality seeds when the need is greatest
At an FAO webinar, seed experts discussed the impacts of COVID-19 on seed systems – the primary basis for human sustenance – and potential action to mitigate these. The recording of the virtual event is available online.
Food production depends on the availability, accessibility, and quality of seeds. Although the COVID-19 crisis’...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
الممارسات
Improving the productivity of draught animal power
The development and modification of tillage implement designs and practices suitable for donkeys and cattle of limited draught capability was undertaken. This was accomplished through the compilation of a detailed database of animal-drawn tillage implements, an evaluation of potentially low draught implements on station and on farm, and the development...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
الممارسات
Traditional bamboo preservation methods in Latin America
Bamboo, a natural resource used in Latin America since pre-Colombian times, has an unlimited number of applications in the daily life of tens of millions of people. However, bamboo tends to get degraded over time by microorganisms, bacteria, insects, fungus and other factors that limit its life time. Therefore, bamboo...
Ecuador
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
وثيقة فنية
Social assistance and productive support policies implementation in rural areas
Are social protection policies designed to reach the rural poor?
Many studies have provided global and regional overviews of the state of social protection policies and their importance to poverty reduction, food security and nutrition. However, little is known about how such policies are designed and implemented in rural areas, or how they complement and link to agricultural support programmes,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Dutch funding to IFAD will help avert COVID-19 food crisis
As more people spiral into hunger and poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Netherlands has stepped up its funding to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to help avert a rural food crisis.
Their €6 million contribution to IFAD’s Rural Poor Stimulus Facility will help small-scale farmers continue to grow...
2020 - IFAD
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
25 Organizations Supporting Sustainable Fishing
Demand for fish is on the rise worldwide—fish consumption has spiked 122 percent in the last three decades, according to the United Nations.
At least 3 billion people rely on seafood as a primary source of protein, according to the World Wildlife Fund. And the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that...
2020 - FoodTank
تقرير
Agroecology and Markets – Stories from the field
How wide are the agroecology ripples?
We cannot talk about food sovereignty without mentioning the role of mass markets on which the majority of people depend on their income and food. These markets have demonstrated their relevance during the COVID-19 era by strengthening rural-urban linkages. Mass markets have been the main avenue through which rural people...
Cameroon - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - Sudan - Uganda - Zambia
2020 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA)
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Características, producción y manejo de la gramínea forrajera tropical Agrosavia Sabanera para pastoreo en la región Caribe colombiana
El presente manual busca dar a conocer la pastura Agrosavia Sabanera como una alternativa forrajera de alto rendimiento y buena calidad nutricional que puede ser usada en sistemas de pastoreo rotacional, con presencia de árboles, arbustos, leguminosas nativas y arvenses; esto contribuye al desarrollo sostenible y competitivo de los sistemas...
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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Improving sustainable livelihoods in dryland areas
Participatory research methodology development in parallel with technology development that responded to the needs of the farming community was done in Embu, a semi-arid area of Kenya. The work involved problem diagnosis, research design, trial implementation and evaluation, as well as demonstration and dissemination of options and recommendations for producing...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
تقرير
Collective Approaches to Land Management
The BOND Project - New Solutions for Collective Action
In order to tackle the mounting environmental, social and economic challenges that humanity faces due to the impacts of climate change and other crises, agroecological and other sustainable good practices are needed to be put forward - and upscaled. To achieve this, empowering agriculture-focused organisation in the form of collective...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2020 - The BOND Project
تقرير
Smallholders and family farms in the Republic of Moldova
The background for conducting country studies on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in seven countries has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative and develop the initiative towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional and country levels. To provide support to...
Republic of Moldova
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
مقالة إخبارية
Mexico: Hard times
Fishing communities in Mexico grapple with the challenge of maintaining sustainable practices during the pandemic. COVID-19’s impacts have exacerbated challenges in the three dimensions of sustainability: social, economic, and environmental. As social and economic issues have been prioritized worldwide through the emphasis on the access to health, food production, basic services...
Mexico
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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